Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Brookings
The 20 closest public policy think tank alternatives to Brookings, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Brookings? The closest matches are Council on Foreign Relations, Pew Research Center and ProPublica. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Brookings
Brookings brookings.edu
Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Wikidata: American think tank
Summary by Claude
Nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC that publishes policy research, analysis, podcasts and events on economics, governance, foreign policy, education and technology.
- Who it’s for
- Policymakers, researchers, journalists, general public
- Business model
- Donations, grants and endowment
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Brookings’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Brookings
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Brookings, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.
Very close cos 0.938 - 02
Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Very close cos 0.938 - 03
ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Very close cos 0.916 - 04
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American research organization
Very close cos 0.913 - 05
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close cos 0.903 - 06
National Bureau of Economic Research | NBER
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Very close cos 0.899 - 07
Foreign Policy – the Global Magazine of News and Ideas
The Global Magazine of News and Ideas
Very close cos 0.900 - 08
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close cos 0.901 - 09
The White House
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, and making all Americans safe and secure once again.
Very close cos 0.898 - 10
Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice
Very close cos 0.894 - 11
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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- Google Tag Manager
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- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.894 - 12
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.896 - 13
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Close cos 0.892 - 14
American nonprofit media organization
Close cos 0.890 - 15
American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
Close cos 0.887 - 16
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.
Close cos 0.888 - 17
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Close cos 0.889 - 18
Radio Free Asia
US government-funded broadcaster in Asia
Close cos 0.885 - 19
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Technical Difficulties
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Close cos 0.886
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to brookings.edu’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Brookings uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Brookings is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563126ef95462c5-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/uikit@3.15.1/dist/js/uikit.min.js?ver=3.15.19
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Site search
- Algolia page source: algoliasearch
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX brookings-edu.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-04.azure-dns.org
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Brookings adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on brookings.edu 20/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Atlassian · not on brookings.edu 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on brookings.edu 11/20
- PHP 9/20
- Adobe · not on brookings.edu 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on brookings.edu 8/20
- Apple Business · not on brookings.edu 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on brookings.edu 7/20
- Zoom · not on brookings.edu 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on brookings.edu 6/20
- React · not on brookings.edu 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- DocuSign · not on brookings.edu 5/20